16 comments on “TSM Episode 311: The Many Lies of Peter Molyneux”

RPS is a terrible site, ran by terrible people. I’d be more impressed by their ‘hard hitting’ journalism here if they applied it to the likes of Tim Schafer, Anita Sarkeesian, John McIntosh, or any of the other people whose political and social ideals don’t conflict with their own.

There’s a little consensus going around amongst these old guard SJW journos that attacking gamers has backfired, and it’s better to focus on the developers themselves. I don’t like Molyneux in the least, but what this looks like to me is their opening volley.

I’ve noticed a lot of people who genuinely don’t recognize this as journalism, irrespective of their opinion of RPS (I would hope). They think it’s somehow unfair or discourteous, seeing Molyneux as having been unprofessionally ambushed.

Just repeat to these people “half a million pounds” until they realize a singular website giving him hurty feels for maybe 20 minutes is a bargain for half a million pounds.

That was a really great show, guys. Thanks for rerecording it. The Molyneux talk was interesting as heck. I think I would enjoy hearing the interview acted out. I think Mel would make the best Molyneux.

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-Eternal Sonata
When is this coming exactly?

NEWSPeter Molyneux
“I will never speak to the press again” He said, before taking 2 more interviews.
Kickstarter projects often lack a key force behind getting things done: Accountability
I’d love to hear you guys read the interview. This guy blabbed about Godus at PAX 2013 for the entire keynote slot. It was awful. He even mentioned the Curiosity winner as a selling point.

Bup Talk
Favorite Peter Molyneux game and why.
“Ughth”
That was disgusting.

Imitanis Literature CornerInterview With A Vampire by Anne Rice
What happened at the theatre was both exactly what I expected and totally surprising. I mean eating someone on stage and the setting respectively. There’s some fantastic imagery in the section.

Imitanis Gaming Moment
Due to illness I passed on my weekly board gaming session, but I would like to point Info Blast readers towards a PC/Mobile cross-platform game that I’ve been enjoying for years.Hero Academy is on Steam, and iTunes and is an asynchronous turn based strategy game. This means that (like games like words with friends) one player takes a turn and at some point in the future your opponent takes their turn. (The turn time limit is something like a week)

Two players will each take control of one of 6 different teams and fight on a 5 by 9 grid. There are a handful of different maps with differing terrain such as defense or attack boosting tiles. Each team will also have between 1 and 3 crystals of their color on their side of the map (depending on the map). You win by knocking out all of your enemies units or destroying all of their crystals. On your turn you get 5 actions which can include placing a unit on the board, using an item to upgrade a unit, attacking, moving etc. What’s neat is that you can reset your actions as many times as you want until you find a turn that works for you. If you miscalculate something or just want to see if a certain idea will work, then there’s no penalty for trying. Each team works differently enough to force players to adopt a new strategy when playing as or against that team. It keeps things different enough that I’ve enjoyed the game for years. No one team is unbeatable, you just exploit their weakness as best you can.

Even though each team has unique features, there are some common archetypes throughout the game (Shooter, Caster, Support, Fighter) that help you get an idea of what a particular unit might be capable of.

Something that may turn away some players is that units, items, and spells come into play from each player’s ‘hand’ which is drawn at random from the predefined ‘deck’ for your team. This can result in situations where your team is at a disadvantage because you don’t have what you need in hand. Personally, I like this as games would be very predictable otherwise. It also forces improvisation when you don’t have that certain unit that you need.

DiceAdmiral Travel Moment
I spent a nice day out in the sun in 65 degree weather. It was worth the drive.
I also drove 2 hours round trip to have more of that pizza that I had on sportsball weekend. It’s pretty great pizza.

Final Notes
So how many times this year have you deleted/not recorded the podcast? I think your good/bad ratio here is swinging southwards.
GAH that hidden post image. I DO check those, and you’re making me not want to.
“Unsafe, and taboo in most cultures” another winner for the title bar

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-Eternal Sonata
When is this coming exactly?
Still working on it. I’m at the end of the game, but I’m quite behind on real life work, and am endeavouring to catch up on that. All gaming has taken a back seat for the present.

I’d love to hear you guys read the interview. This guy blabbed about Godus at PAX 2013 for the entire keynote slot. It was awful. He even mentioned the Curiosity winner as a selling point.
Bryan Henderson says, “Don’t believe Molyneux’s lies! I’m the real Bryan Henderson!”

What happened at the theatre was both exactly what I expected and totally surprising. I mean eating someone on stage and the setting respectively. There’s some fantastic imagery in the section.
One thing I particularly like about this scene is that Rice doesn’t go for the easy, cliched audience response, where they would all burst into applause and be totally unaware and then go out and rave about the Theatre. Instead, the audience is confused–some bohemian people clap, others hurry out. The sense is one of having been disturbed, rather than acclaim. It is the desire to be disturbed which is the draw. There’s something tremendously real in that.

Hero Academy is on Steam, and iTunes and is an asynchronous turn based strategy game. This means that (like games like words with friends) one player takes a turn and at some point in the future your opponent takes their turn. (The turn time limit is something like a week)
I feel like this is something which Imitanis tried to get me to play once. CONFIRM!?

I spent a nice day out in the sun in 65 degree weather. It was worth the drive.
I hate you.

I also drove 2 hours round trip to have more of that pizza that I had on sportsball weekend. It’s pretty great pizza.
What is so great about this pizza? Do they put cocaine in it?

So how many times this year have you deleted/not recorded the podcast? I think your good/bad ratio here is swinging southwards.
We lost power during the recording. Normally this results in us keeping the recording up that point. But, for some reason, this time there was no recovery.